TUESDAY BRIEFING: A Safety Spending Test, a $1 Billion Wildfire Fund, and the End of Rule 21's Flat Fee?

Today's briefing examines three CPUC proceedings that could reshape how utilities justify spending and recover costs.

• Commissioner Christine Harada issued a scoping memo for the latest incarnation of the CPUC’s Risk-Based Decision-Making Framework.
• PG&E is seeking to extend a wildfire self-insurance program it says has saved customers $1.8 billion while accumulating more than $1 billion for claims and program expenses.
• And the CPUC is assembling the cost and workload data needed to replace Rule 21’s flat $800 interconnection application fee with a potentially tiered structure.